Hoinkes Peak
Hoinkes Peak | ||
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height | 1840 m | |
location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Enterprise Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
Coordinates | 79 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 82 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Hoinkes Peak is a pointed rocky peak of the Enterprise Hills in the Heritage Range in West Antarctica . The 1840 m high mountain is located in the west of the mountain range, at the head of the Henderson Glacier .
The mountain was mapped by the United States Geological Survey as part of the Enterprise Hills survey in 1961-66 through field surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy . It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Herfried C. Hoinkes , who worked as a meteorologist on the American Antarctic station Little America V in 1957 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hoinkes Peak ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 16, 2010.